In the final draft script of "Anomaly", the name of this mathematical expression was formatted "Cochrane Equation". In the episode's closed captioning, however, the "e" initial of the word "equation" is not capitalized.

Star Trek Maps mentions the Cochrane's factor, a mathematical variable pointed out by Zefram Cochrane in 2053, in which the curvature of space the ship is traveling through causes a multiplication of the relative speed depending on the mass of nearby matter. It can be as high as a multiplication of 1500 times within the most dense interstellar dust and gas, and as little as 1 in the intergalactic void.